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The purpose of the present research was to examine the relationships of social and ecological drawbacks with sports participation of female athletes of Southern Punjab, Pakistan. The study approach was quantitative in nature. Survey questionnaire was employed to collect the survey data. Population was considered all female athletes of college level belonging to Southern Punjab, Pakistan. A sample size of 500 female athletes belonging to intermediate and degree colleges of 13 Districts chosen for data collection applying simple random sampling. The data was analyzed through descriptive statistics and inferential (correlations) analysis. The results of the existing study revealed that the association between sub-domains of social drawbacks and sports participation of female athletes were found positive and significant. The findings indicated that ecological drawbacks (dress and gender differences) had negative and significant associations with female athletes’ sports participation. It was concluded that if specific dress developed for Muslim female athletes, they may enhance their interest in sports participation and manage their time for sports. There is need to minimize the gender differences providing female equal opportunities in the field of sports and other discipline as well so that they may not understand themselves inferiors than males.

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